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Music saved me I mean, my upbringing was like a hurricane, and music was the tree I held onto.
Eddie Vedder
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Eddie Vedder
Age: 59
Born: 1964
Born: December 23
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Eddie Jerome Vedder
Edward Louis Severson III
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